cherry picker
1cherry picker — cherry ,picker noun count INFORMAL a vehicle with a box that can be raised to let someone in it work very high above the ground …
2cherry-picker — [n] truck with raisable boom boom, cable truck, telephone truck, utility truck; concept 505 …
3cherry picker — ☆ cherry picker n. Slang an elevator tower, or now usually a crane boom, mounted on a truck, with a platform from which spacecraft on launchers, raised electric power lines, etc. can be serviced …
4Cherry picker — For the basketball strategy, see Cherry picking (basketball). For the historical British regiment, see 11th Hussars. Cherry picker reaching from pavement across front gardens to upstairs windows. A cherry picker (also known as a boom lift, man… …
5cherry picker — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms cherry picker : singular cherry picker plural cherry pickers informal a vehicle with a box that can be raised to let someone in it work very high above the ground …
6cherry picker — 1. a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc. 2. a vehicle equipped with such a boom. Also, cherry picker, cherrypicker. [1860 65] * * …
7cherry picker — noun Date: circa 1944 1. a traveling crane equipped for holding a passenger at the end of the boom 2. one who cherry picks < cherry pickers who gobbled up bargains all over town J. S. Coyle > …
8cherry picker — noun informal 1》 a hydraulic crane with a railed platform for raising and lowering people. 2》 a person who cherry picks …
9cherry picker — noun a) An extensible boom, usually mounted on a truck body, used by workers to reach inaccessible places as power lines and tall trees. b) A person or group who pick the best for themselves. Syn: bucket truck …
10cherry picker — n. apparatus used in orchards for picking fruits (not only for picking cherries); mobile crane that can be raised to enable a person to work off the ground (such as working on electrical lines, pruning trees, etc.) …
